INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

 On November 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women raises awareness regarding an ongoing human rights issue. Today, many women around the world are still subject to rape and other types of violence.

Through the years, government officials and international leaders have lead the charge to curb violence against women and girls. Unfortunately, however, it is still all too common. Violence against women continues to be a widespread and persistent human rights violation. 

Violence against women as a global phenomenon has existed everywhere in the world and many women around the world are falling victim to this painful reality of human society every day. But research and reports from around the world show that violence against women is more prevalent in societies with low cultural and social knowledge than in areas with better cultural and social knowledge.

Thus, we can say that in our society, where people are at a lower level in terms of culture and social awareness, violence against women is also one of the most widespread phenomena. Every year, many women across our country face domestic and community violence, and in some cases, national and international women's rights organizations try to support the victims of this sinister phenomenon by receiving and investigating cases of violence

The Government of Afghanistan has also taken an important step in this regard by passing the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women and establishing gender units in the government and some departments of the two branches of the judiciary and the legislature, as well as establishing a special prosecutor's office to combat violence against women.

Illiteracy, low level of public awareness of the rights and duties of citizenship, lack of awareness of women about their status and rights, poverty and lack of financial independence of women, deprivation of political and social rights, supremacy and superstitions on women's social and family life, Lack of access to justice and the existence of a culture of impunity have been identified as the most important causes of violence against women in Afghanistan.

Research by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) shows that the majority of cases of violence against women occur in families with lower levels of literacy and awareness, especially legal awareness. For this reason, violence among rural families is far more serious and more than urban and educated families, and even the type of violence in rural families is more severe and serious than urban and educated families. . Bad habits, exchanges, forced marriages, forced marriages and beatings are some of the most common cases in families that are not literate enough in social life.

Part of violence against women has a lot to do with women's lack of awareness of their social and individual status and rights. Undoubtedly, a woman who knows what position and position she has in the family and social system and what rights she has, will not allow anyone to encroach on her rights and ignore her position. Referral to the law and the judiciary and women's rights organizations are ways that can protect all women from violence against them in some way and provide them with the opportunity to live a dignified life.

In most of our families, especially in rural families, women are economically dependent on their husbands and husbands and have no authority in these matters due to lack of income. This dependence greatly provides an opportunity and ground for men in family life to have more courageous violence against women in their families. However, women in this situation do not have the courage to defend themselves and react against violence against themselves and are forced to endure all the problems and violence.

The lack of real and appropriate presence of women in important government and administrative positions, and finally the absence of women in national policies and macro-decisions, also provide an opportunity to build the basic capacity to protect women's human rights in society. They strengthen, eliminate, and in such circumstances, most of the support activities for women against violence have become ineffective slogans and programs and will practically cease to be effective.

Regarding the rule of custom and bad traditions, we all know for sure that many of the problems of women are related to the rule of beliefs that exist as a custom or custom in our society. Lack of access to justice and the existence of a culture of impunity in the justice system of the country is one of the most important causes of violence against women and the increase of this unfortunate national phenomenon in our society.

Women who are abused need legal and judicial support. However, she has seen many cases in which the judiciary has not taken violence against women seriously and the perpetrators of violence have not been punished as required by law. Criminal exemption for perpetrators of violence against women reinforces the spirit in society that men should treat women as they wish without fear of reprimand.

Murder, beatings, ill-treatment, deportation, forced marriage, child marriage, abortion, non-payment of alimony, destiny, eviction, obstruction of social activities, usurpation of property, Divorce, rape, abduction, unjustified detention, and forced drug addiction are some of the most important forms of violence against women in the family and in Afghan society, which in some cases forces women to seek redress. Violence perpetrates acts such as self-immolation, suicide, opium addiction, attempted murder, abortion, running away from home, and the like, and willingly or unwillingly endanger oneself.